There is “no shortage of investor appetite” and policy support is in place, but there are still some barriers to energy storage deployment on the scale needed to decarbonise Australia’s energy sector.

UK-based energy company Statera Energy has secured planning consent for a 290MW/1,740MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be developed in Southwest England.

State government-owned energy company Synergy has received planning approval for its 500MW/2,000MWh Collie Battery Energy Storage System (CBESS) project in Western Australia.

Black Mountain Energy Storage has won approval for a battery storage project which will be the biggest in the US state of Wisconsin so far.

A “farmer-led” utility-scale solar PV and battery storage agrivoltaics project in New South Wales, Australia, has been granted development consent.

New South Wales has granted planning approval for battery energy storage system projects in the Australian state’s Renewable Energy Zones.

New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

EnergyAustralia has filed planning applications for four-hour duration large-scale lithium BESS in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

Development approvals have been granted for New Zealand’s biggest planned battery energy storage system (BESS) to date.

Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.